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ASP.Net Form-based Authentication for SharePoint

Within the framework of developing a website using SharePoint 2013 located in Azure as a platform, it would be required to generate an alternative login for the SharePoint users.

This new login, should let the registred users to access restricted content that is not available for anonymous access.

Solution:

The solution was to create guest user accounts with a registered form, for those who have access to the content restricted for the anonymous user.

Autenthication by ASP.NET (Forms Based Authentication) was included to the solution, for “guest” registered users and for Company users and content administrators SharePoint 2013 authentication was used. administradores de contenido.

A sing in Popup was programed that contained the following options:

Sign in as a SharePoint user

Sign in as guest user.

Forgot my password

Register

An exclusive table was implemented in order to store the metadata of the user’s obtained from the register form and to separate it from the content automatically generated by FBA to administrate the user’s information.